OK... I need all the brains here to solve a puzzle for us. We intend to call Marriott desk tomorrow but I bet they won't know the answer.
Here is the verbiage on the new lifetime elite program and grandfathering.
In August, we’ll have three Lifetime Elite tiers, each with its own nights and Elite tenure thresholds. Once you achieve a Lifetime Elite tier, you’ll never go below it, and your points will never expire. If you have previously achieved Lifetime Elite status in Rewards or SPG, we will honor that Lifetime Elite status in the new program (see below). In addition, when you combine Rewards and SPG accounts we will combine your lifetime activity across both toward Lifetime Elite status in the new combined program. Members will have until year-end 2018 to complete stays in order to achieve the Lifetime Elite status thresholds to be grandfathered in at the previous thresholds for Rewards or SPG.
Existing Lifetime Elite members will receive the following status in August:
SPG:
- Lifetime Gold members receive Lifetime Gold Elite status
- Lifetime Platinum members receive Lifetime Platinum Elite status.
MARRIOTT REWARDS/THE RITZ-CARLTON REWARDS:
- Lifetime Silver Elite members receive Lifetime Silver Elite status.
- Lifetime Gold Elite members receive Lifetime Platinum Elite status.
- Lifetime Platinum Elite members are grandfathered into Lifetime Platinum Premier Elite status.
We should be able to get to 500 nights on the Marriott Rewards end, with 2 million points. We won't get to 750 nights. Looking at the program, we should be able to obtain current Lifetime Gold Elite and be grandfathered into Lifetime Platinum Elite status. Is that correct?
We also have 95 nights on SPG end. We can bump that up to 100 nights and make mattress run if needed. There is verbiage above that talked about combining MRP and SPG accounts. If we add the 2 program nights, we can be at 600 nights in the new Lifetime Platinum Premier status, but not have the 10 years of Platinum Premier tenure.
Do you think think that the only path we have is grandfathering Marriott's Lifetime Gold Elite to the new program's Lifetime Platinum Elite status, since we won't have 750 nights (in the old program) with Marriott?